Chapter 13

Question 1

All of the following events contributed to the sectional crisis, but which of these events
occurred first?

Answer 1

Haitian Revolution

Question 2

The Missouri Crisis began when __________.

Answer 2

Congressional representative James Tallmadge proposed laws that would gradually
abolish slavery in the new state

Question 3

The Missouri Compromise did all of the following EXCEPT

Answer 3

Propose popular sovereignty as the determination of whether states would have
slavery

Question 4

How did the Missouri state legislature answer the question of whether African Americans
could have citizenship?

Answer 4

Missouri denied African Americans citizenship

Question 5

Which of the following most accurately describes the approach of the Democratic Party of
Andrew Jackson as it relates to the issue of slavery?

Answer 5

Avoided the issue whenever possible

Question 6

Which of the following mounted the longest and most successful challenge to the power of
the Democratic Party?

Answer 6

Whig Party

Question 7

Which of the following best describes the goals of the Liberty Party?

Answer 7

End the slave trade and halt the expansion of slavery

Question 8

What was the result of the 1842 Supreme Court case Prigg v. Pennsylvania?

Answer 8

Ruled that the federal government’s Fugitive Slave Act trumped Pennsylvania’s
personal liberty law

Question 9

The Compromise of 1850 included a much harsher fugitive slave law. It also included all of
the following EXCEPT

Answer 9

Kansas entered the Union as a slave state

Question 10

All of the following are true about Uncle Tom’s Cabin EXCEPT

Answer 10

It was the most widely purchased book in the nineteenth century. Got it wrong on test. I chose written by woman

Question 11

Which of the following most accurately describes the Know-Nothing Party?

Answer 11

Not The formed to oppose immigration

Not fix

Question 12

. All of the following are true about the political consequences of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
EXCEPT

Answer 12

Not Energized a new generation of politicians, including Abraham Lincoln
Not

Question 13

What was the most consequential result of the Dred Scott decision?

Answer 13

Ruled that black Americans could not be citizens

Question 14

What was the primary goal of John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry?

Answer 14

Inspire a slave revolt

Question 15

Why did the Republican Party nominate Abraham Lincoln for the presidency?

Answer 15

He was less polarizing than the other candidates